Bomb kills 3 tribal elders in Afghanistan; 9 police killed

20/2/2018 19:24

        A bomb went off in a hotel room in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday, killing three tribal elders, while Afghan officials reported that at least nine policemen were killed in latest attacks by insurgents.
        
        The spokesman in Nangarhar, Attaullah Khogyani, said the bomb went off around noon as tribal elders gathered in the hotel room in Jalalabad, the provincial capital, to discuss village problems.
        
        Khogyani said three other elders were wounded in the blast and that another bomb was discovered and defused by police forces near the hotel.
        
        There were no further details and no one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. Both the Taliban and Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate are active in Nangarhar.